An international lawyer says the US targets anyone who opposes its corporatist system in order to discredit or eliminate them.
In a phone interview with Press TV on Wednesday, Barry Grossman said the US National Security Agency, with the help of other corporations spread throughout the world, is spying on people across the globe and targeting them “not only to be criminalized, but to be discredited and if necessary eliminated.”
“We now live in an era where basically anything can be done and covered up by the notion of national security, by drawing this opaque curtain of national security to justify identifying [and] gathering data [about] anyone who is hostile or in any way considered as possibly being opposed to this out-of-control, what’s really become almost a fascist global system where corporate interests and corporations set the policy agenda that is spoon-fed to the politicians,” he added.
Documents leaked by whistleblower Edward Snowden have brought to light the scope and scale of US spying activities across the globe
Recent leaks show that as far back as 2010 the NSA added the founder of whistleblower website WikiLeaks, Julian Assange, to a “MANHUNTING” target list, together with suspected members of al-Qaeda.
“We now have a working definition of what a terrorist is, according to [former US Secretary of State] Henry Kissinger. It is just being somebody who is opposed to the international system, whatever that happens to be. This is of course very dangerous,” Grossman said.
He also said that “it is really quite astounding that people remain quiet” and do not stand up to Washington’s vast spying programs.
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